Star Trek: The Video Game

I really wanted to like this game, but with the amount of bugs, game mechanics and camera issues, I wouldn't even recommend this game to a...

Its numerous bugs and linear missions make it frustrating to play, and the story never grabs you like a good sci-fi adventure should. Even the most devoted of Star Trek fans will be hard pressed to find something to like in Star Trek The Video Game: there are simply too many glaring problems.

Star Trek makes some attempts to be lively in the writing and acting department, but in every other regard it's deeply boring, incredibly stupid, ugly and senseless. Avoid.

When the music soars, the characters align and the combat gels, Star Trek becomes a rare movie game that rises above its peers and delivers something genuinely fun. It's only ever a partial success though, too bogged down by timid design and technical rough edges to really be the game that Trek deserves.

No matter what you think of the new movies no franchise deserves a tie-in as timidly generic as this, with painfully bland action and low-tech, not sci-fi, presentation.

The only distinctive selling point of this game – the promise of an epic buddy co-op experience between two famous sci-fi pals - succumbs to awkward banter and gimmicky co-op puzzles. Star Trek asks you to traverse a vast galaxy, but when the credits roll, you’ll wonder why you bothered when there was so little to discover along the way.

Generic shooting, incredibly poor artificial intelligence and glitchy bug-ridden gameplay amounts to nothing more than a meager attempt to cash in on next month’s film. We salute you for trying, but this is better left untouched and propelled into space.

Although the studio set out to please the diehard Trekkies by embracing the source material, they will find far more satisfactory co-op experiences elsewhere.